Compiled Code in Distributed Logic Simulation

A logic simulation approach known as compiled-code event-driven simulation was developed in the past for sequential logic simulation. It improves simulation performance by reducing the logic evaluation and propagation time. In this paper we describe the application of this approach to distributed logic simulation. Our experimental results show that using compiled code can greatly improve the stability and overall performance of a time-warp based logic simulator. We also present a technique called fanout aggregation that makes use of information on circuit partitions and considerably improves the run-time performance of our (distributed) compiled code simulator. It does not produce a similar improvement when used in conjunction with an interpreted simulator because of run-time overhead